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Kenny Kyle received a phone call from Josh Silver about a week before Thanksgiving one year.Silver, a former Peninsula Pilots player who went to Lee University in Tennessee, didn't want to fly home to California for the holiday and was looking for a place...

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When the bus pulled to a stop in the village near the south-central coast of the Dominican Republic, it was surrounded instantly by dozens of mostly shirtless and shoeless youngsters.
They banged on the sides and rocked the bus in joyful anticipation,...

A user’s manual for the RosenBits column: Wait five seconds and there’ll be another item coming along.
Martellus Bennett is expected to show up for the start of training camp and the tight end is expected to stay in camp.
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Garbine Muguruza is not exactly the household name Serena Williams is, but she has knocked Williams out of a Grand Slam event before, beating her in the second round of the French Open last year, 6-2, 6-2. The 20th-ranked player in the world...

The Reds' Todd Frazier is paired with two-time champion Prince Fielder of Texas in the first round of Monday's All-Star Home Run Derby in Cincinnati. In this year's new format, Chicago Cubs rookie Kris Bryant is in a pairing with the Los Angeles Angels'...

In the early stages of Wrigley Field's extensive renovation, questions swirled about what would happen to the old center-field scoreboard as two new video boards were being placed on both sides of it.
Fred Washington, a member of the grounds crew for the...

Alex Rodriguez homered for his 3,000th career hit and smiled all the way around the bases Friday night, the highlight so far in what's become a resurgent season for the formerly disgraced slugger.
The New York Yankees star wasted no time, connecting in...

After leaving the Cubs to take over as president of the Blackhawks on November 20, 2007, John McDonough went on a listening tour through the United Center before a game against Phoenix.
As McDonough walked through the aisles, Blackhawks fans gave him...

Mike Trout wants to do the right thing. He decorated his boyhood room with posters of Derek Jeter, after all. We asked Trout whether he might ever yield to the veteran temptation to skip the All-Star game in favor of four days off, and you could almost...

It has come to my notice that baseball needs a new face. Why this is so is not clear, nor even if it is so. Baseball needs a shave, that much I can see. Baseball has more beards than a hall full of hermits.
Somewhere on the playing fields of Major League...

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It may be only May 11, but already it looks like wild card or bust for the Cubs and White Sox.
The Cubs open a homestand against the Mets and Pirates trailing first-place St. Louis by 6 1/2 games, while the White Sox begin a road trip to Milwaukee and...

It's hard to know what baseball at Wrigley Field will look like this year, thanks to one of the busiest offseasons in recent Cubs history.
It remains to be seen if Jon Lester will enjoy a seamless transition to a new league or whether the franchise's...

TAMPA, Fla. — When tainted slugger Alex Rodriguez arrived early at Yankees camp last month, team officials fumed over the fact he didn't tell them he was coming.
It was a preemptive strike from "A-Rod,'' getting his apology out of the way before the...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Bruce Pearl is sitting on the bench at Rupp Arena, watching his Auburn players launch shots on the morning of the Kentucky game.
“Basketball,” he says in a voice that harkens to Sammy Sosa and a “Saturday Night Live” skit, “has been...

SAN PEDRO de MACORIS, Dominican Republic — Winding through the dusty and chaotic streets crammed with honking cars and buzzing scooters, you'd never know this coastal city is a baseball mecca.
But past the rows of one-room concrete buildings with peeling...

MESA, Ariz. — Loud music will be a staple of preworkout stretching.
Teaching tools such as a pitching machine that hurls smaller baseballs and 36-ounce bats will be implemented later.
But still no Sammy Sosa.
Welcome to this spring's Cubs under new...

MESA, Ariz. — Eleven years after an unknown Cubs player smashed Sammy Sosa's boom box in a mystery that remains unsolved, music filled the air Wednesday morning during the first full workout at Cubs' camp.
Let it be recorded for posterity's sake the...